Fragments of Repression and Resistance

Kumru F. Toktamis is a political sociologist. Her historical-comparative, theoretically eclectic, and culturally informed research focuses on de/democratization, state formation, political violence, social movements, nationalism, and ethnic and gender politics in the Middle East. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Sorani Kurdish, and Turkish.Isabel David is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa). She is co-editor (with Kumru F. Toktamis) of the book series "Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey" with Peter Lang Academic Publishers.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Kumru F. Toktamış/Isabel David: Introduction. Authoritarian’s Game: Repression and Resistance in Turkey – Marién Durán Cenit/Guillermo López-Rodríguez: The Autocratization Process in Turkey: Key Indicators – José Duarte Ribeiro/Ayşe Gündüz Hoşgör: Do Peasants Make History? Authoritarianism and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey – Gülnur Elçik: The Sexual Contract of Capital Accumulation in Turkey – Murat Akser: Media Capture and Erosion of News Reporting in Turkey: The Dawn of the Age of Post-Truth Politics – Seda Altuğ/Mert Arslanalp/Volkan Çidam/Saygun Gökariksel: Repression and Resistance at Boğaziçi University: The Making of Counterpublic Under Authoritarian Offensive – Duygu Atlas: Sites of Resistance: Kurdish Arts in Turkey from 2009 to the Present – Pınar Dokumacı: Repression, Resistance, and Relational Re-Imagination: Secular-Pious Divide in the Women’s Rights Movement in Turkey – Canan Coşkan and Ercan Şen: Negotiating Kurdishness as Resistance: Reclaiming Racialized Identities and Power in the Multitudes of Kurdishness Through Collective Critical Consciousness – Alejandro Ciordia and Carmen Rodríguez López: Geopolitical Discourses in Turkey’s Partisan Media During the Syrian War: A Framing Approach on the Siege of Kobane – Ödül Celep: The Turkey-ification of Turkey’s Kurdish Left – Paul Kubicek: Concluding Chapter. The Legacy of A.K.P. Rule in Turkey’s Post-Erdoğan Political Landscape – Notes on Contributors – Index.